Ilex integra

Plant Characteristics

Habit		tree
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Features:	✓	evergreen

Scientific Names

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Ilex integra, or Mochitree, is an ornamental tree of the holly genus, which is native to parts of Asia, including Korea; Taiwan; the mid-southern regions of China; and Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan. Its flower is light-yellow. The species was botanically described in 1784.

Read about Ilex integra in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Ilex integra, Thunb. (Othera japonica, Thunb. Ilex othera, Spreng.). Evergreen shrub or tree, to 40 ft., glabrous: lvs. slender-petioled. oval to elliptic-oblong or oblong-obovate, rarely oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, at the apex contracted into a short obtuse point, entire, very rarely with a few teeth, indistinctly veined, 2-3 ½ in. long; petiole 1/3 - ¾ in. long: fls. on stalks 1/5 – 1/3 in. long, in axillary fascicles on branches of the previous year: fr. red, globose or ovoid, 1/3 – ½ in. long. Feb.-April; fr. in Aug.-Oct. Japan.—Variable in the size and shape of the Ivs. and in the length of the pedicels; one of the forms is cult, in the S. as Othera japonica. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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